The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, ...

The platypus is such a strange animal that it was originally thought to be an elaborate hoax by pranksters When European ...

The young platypus was stuck on a concrete bridge, frantically searching for safety as flood water thundered below. Onlookers followed her with phone cameras. Footage of the lost little creature went ...

In a collaborative project between NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, UNSW Sydney and WWF-Australia, five female platypus have been released into the ...

The platypus is a near-threatened species from eastern Australia and Tasmania. The platypus is considered to be a mammal because it grows hair, has mammary glands, and three bones in the middle ears.

Life for the duck-billed platypus has never seemed easy. With its bizarre bird-like beak, mammalian fur and reptilian gait and egg-laying habits, the platypus long mystified natural historians, who ...

If there was a poster animal for diversification, it would have to be the platypus. It looks like an otter that’s gone trick-or-treating as a duck. It’s a mashup that inspired Mark Anthony Libre to ...

Now, researchers have found that the genome that underlies these disparate traits is as diverse as the platypus itself. “The platypus genome, like the animal itself, is an amazing amalgam of ...

A man has been charged with illegally taking a platypus from the wild and parading it at a local shopping centre, as fears grow for the animal's wellbeing. The 26-year-old unnamed man was captured on ...

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ever sighted in the past 200 years.

Police in Australia launched a public appeal after a 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel. The man, who faces court ...